From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.
~By Rex Hunt ~
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.
~By Liam Neeson ~
In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.
~By James W. Black ~
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
~By William Faulkner ~
I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
~By Sally Schneider ~
I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
~By Randall Terry ~
Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.
~By Aly Khan ~
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
~By Helen Garner ~
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
~By Robert Morgan ~
I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.
~By Todd Barry ~
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
~By Fawn M. Brodie ~
So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.
~By John Cameron ~
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
~By Pope Benedict XVI ~
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
~By Simone Weil ~
Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
~By John Jay Chapman ~
In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy, he taught me about life and the love of people and respect of people.
~By Kaley Cuoco ~
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
~By H. G. Wells ~
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
~By Clarence Darrow ~
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
~By A. Bartlett Giamatti ~
When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.
~By Dick York ~
In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.
~By Edward Bach ~
John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.
~By Claudio Hummes ~
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
~By Shelley Berman ~
I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.
~By Shelley Berman ~
Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.
~By Neil LaBute ~
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
~By Annie Jump Cannon ~
Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.
~By John Knowles ~
Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.
~By Jon Porter ~
Teaching is the royal road to learning.
~By Jessamyn West ~
When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
~By Ann Beattie ~
There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
~By Bram Stoker ~
The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.
~By Ali Hoseini Khamenei ~
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.
~By Itzhak Perlman ~
We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham.
~By King Hussein I ~
I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
~By Albert Ellis ~
But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
~By Dabney Coleman ~
What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not.
~By Rick Santorum ~
Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.
~By Cheryl Crawford ~
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
~By Venerable Bede ~
In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.
~By Robert Sternberg ~
The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.
~By Robert Maxwell ~
What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
~By Margaret Mead ~
Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
~By Erykah Badu ~
I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.
~By Khandi Alexander ~
There is no teaching to compare with example.
~By Robert Powell ~
I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
~By Oscar Robertson ~
The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.
~By John Sexton ~
Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?
~By William P. Leahy ~
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.
~By Ronald Fisher ~
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
~By Colin Firth ~
My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.
~By Christa McAuliffe ~
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.
~By Tommy Shaw ~
My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.
~By John Woolman ~
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
That is someone who follows the teachings of the nonviolent Jesus and takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price. I fall into that category.
~By Martin Sheen ~
I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.
~By Muhammad Yunus ~
One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.
~By Eric Bristow ~
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.
~By Roger Nash Baldwin ~
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
~By John W. Gardner ~
Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.
~By Robert T. Bakker ~
I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.
~By Ike Turner ~
I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?
~By Willie Aames ~
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
~By Buddha ~
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
~By Lord Acton ~
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.
~By Mary Wesley ~
Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
~By John Milton ~
The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.
~By Shannon Miller ~
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
~By Ronald Fisher ~
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
~By Taslima Nasrin ~
Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.
~By John Templeton ~
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
~By Warren E. Burger ~
I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.
~By Sanaa Lathan ~
This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.
~By Al Jourgensen ~
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.
~By Richard Ernst ~
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.
~By Paul Rodriguez ~
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
~By Rudy Rucker ~
Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
~By Taryn Manning ~
The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is now a growing enterprise with many model and other econometric facilities.
~By Lawrence R. Klein ~
We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
~By James Carville ~
I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
~By Art Garfunkel ~
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
~By Cat Stevens ~
But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.
~By Audre Lorde ~
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